Does Shamanism Have a History? With Attention to Early Chinese Shamanism

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" Does Shamanism Have a History? With Attention to Early Chinese Shamanism "
Thomas Michael

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1079239
Doc. No	:	LA122868
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341477‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Thomas Michael
Title & Author	:	Does Shamanism Have a History? With Attention to Early Chinese Shamanism [Article]\ Thomas Michael
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Numen
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	64/5-6
Page No	:	459–496
Abstract	:	The article examines various options that scholars have explored in their efforts to construct a history of shamanism. Recognizing Eliade’s promise that such a history lies in the near future, the article then explores the important ways in which this has been undertaken. It specifies four such ways: with prehistoric rock art, the origins of cultural myths, memory studies, and movements of cultural resistance. Ultimately resisting each of these four options while paying particular attention to the case of early Chinese shamanism, its concluding sections recognize the work of Mircea Eliade and Roberte Hamayon as providing two alternative pathways that might lead into possible constructions of this history, and it then attempts to locate a third way between them.
Descriptor	:	Chinese shamanism
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History of Religion
Descriptor	:	history of shamanism
Descriptor	:	Mircea Eliade
Descriptor	:	Religion Society
Descriptor	:	Religion in Antiquity
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Roberte Hamayon
Descriptor	:	shamanism
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685276-12341477‬